Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Leo Buscaglia

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

James Barrie

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

Elias Hicks

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

Bertrand Russell

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

Jacques Maritain

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Louis Aragon

The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.

Henry James

because being with you makes perfect sense

Tim McGraw

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

Roger Goodell